Los Angeles Clippers forward Blake Griffin will miss the remainder of the 2017 playoffs due to injury. According to NBA.com, the Clippers announced Saturday that Griffin would not return to the post-season after suffering an injury to the plantar plate of his right big toe in L.A.’s game 3 playoff win over Utah Friday,

Griffin was lost to injury in last year’s playoffs.  He suffered a quad injury in the Clippers opening round series loss vs. the Portland Trail Blazers, only playing in four of the six games.

Griffin averaged 21.6 points, 8.6 rebounds during the regular season this year.

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Blake Griffin leaves Game 3 with bruised right big toe

By KAREEM COPELAND, AP Sports Writer

 

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Clippers forward Blake Griffin has left Game 3 against the Jazz with a bruised right big toe and will not return.
The five-time All-Star left the game with 3:18 remaining in the second quarter after landing awkwardly following a transition layup. He had 11 points, six rebounds and two assists in 18 minutes.

Griffin had X-rays at the arena that were negative and the Clippers planned to re-evaluate him later Friday night. He averaged 25 points, six rebounds and 2.5 assists in the first two games of the series.

Marreese Speights started the second half in Griffin’s place.

The first-round series was already affected by injury after Jazz center Rudy Gobert, a Defensive Player of the Year candidate, went down 17 seconds into Game 1 with a hyperextended left knee and bone contusion.

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